Building Sustainability in Hard Times:
Integrated EHS Platforms Support Cost Savings
The triple bottom line concept for sustainability, addressing economic, environmental, and social business effects, is becoming well established in corporate boardrooms. This is particularly the case for companies with sensitive environmental, safety, and social footprints, where related operating costs are substantial, and failure to perform can impede an otherwise expanding license to operate.
There is an inextricable link between driving actual sustainability, and having the data management systems in-place to measure and coordinate daily performance. Yet in today’s challenging economy, investments in the environmental, safety, and social domain are being carefully scrutinized, including those that are IT-related.
The good news is that Sustainability IT projects have strong business cases, and that these can even be more compelling in a tough economy. This paper focuses on the IT systems supporting sustainability performance, addressing:
- How Corporate Responsibility Supports Business Objectives.
- Building Your Sustainability Systems.
- Executing the Project.
- Creating the Business Case.
The Authors
- David Cox, PE is the Vice President of Corporate Responsibility Solutions for ESS
- Neal Rosen is the Director of Solution Engineering for ESS
